POLS 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Racial Profiling, Reasonable Accommodation, Interculturalism
30 Nov 2016
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Canada is often called an immigrant society, reflecting the fact that it has long had a large number of immigrants arriving every year. Visible minorities: persons other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Racial profiling is collecting statistics on crime committed by particular race. The politics of identity was said to characterize members of minority groups who began to feel strong ethnocultural identities and demand recognition of those identities by canadian government. U. s ideal of melting pot melting away ethnic differences and treating everyone alike. Canada declared official multiculturalism policy to promote and preserve canada"s multicultural heritage greater commitment to equality. British and french and aboriginals considered founding peoples of the country however lol the aboriginals had to fight to be a part of that definition. Railway construction and western settlement were two key objectives of the macdonald government"s 1879 national policy, and first dramatic surge of immigrants arrived during the.
